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CVE-2018-6970

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-6970 is an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the Message Framework library affecting VMware Horizon 6 (prior to 6.2.7), Horizon 7 (prior to 7.5.1), and Horizon Client (prior to 4.8.1) on Windows systems. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) allows a less-privileged user to potentially leak sensitive information from a privileged process without user interaction. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage regarding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 4.0.0, < 4.8.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:horizon_client:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 6.0.0, < 6.2.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:horizon_view:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 7.0.0, < 7.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:horizon_view:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.78%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
76.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0178 is in the 89th percentile among its peer group of 21,954 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

vmwarepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

vmware.com / security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0019.html
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/105031
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1041430
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry